Mother who attempted to kill 4-year-old daughter remanded

A Corentyne, Berbice, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) woman was on Friday remanded to prison for allegedly giving her four-year-old daughter poison to drink.
Niladave Shamsundar called “Tasha”, 23, of Lot 1 Number 50 Village, Corentyne, Berbice, appeared at the Number 51 Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Alex Moore and was not required to plead to the charge of attempt to commit murder.
It is alleged that on October 2, at Number 50 Village, she attempted to murder four-year-old Tenisha Shamsundar by giving her a poisonous substance to drink.
The charge was laid under Section 103 (a) of the Criminal Law (Offences) Act, Chapter 8:01.

Magistrate Moore remanded the housewife and ordered that she returns to court on December 9.
The court was told that the child, who is Shamsundar’s daughter, is in a stable condition.
According to the Police, on October 2, 2022, at about 20:00h, the woman and her husband had a heated argument and he slapped her.
In response, the woman allegedly told him that she would ingest poison and give it to her children. At the time, the accused and the victim were in the house, while her husband was in a hammock on the veranda.
Shortly after, the child started screaming and her father rushed to her and saw Shamsundar with a bottle containing Gramoxone in her hand, which he had brought from his mother’s home.
The four-year-old was taken to the hospital where she was admitted and remains a patient.
It had been reported that initially, the mother told investigators that her four-year-old daughter was playing in the yard and subsequently informed her that she had opened a bottle that was in the goat pen and drank some of the substance.
It was also reported that Police subsequently said they were able to obtain a confession statement from the child’s mother, who admitted to giving the infant the poison to drink. (G4)